Re: POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE and O_STREAMING behavior in 2.6.7

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 12:39:45 EST


På fr , 27/08/2004 klokka 04:25, skreiv David Greaves:
> I want my nfs client to communicate this to my nfs server. Thus avoiding
> my nfs server having a cache of useless video.
> I can see this becoming an important benefit for video distribution (an
> area linux is likely to see more of)

Then that will have to be done either through some out-of-band protocol,
or as part of some future minor revision of NFSv4 (assuming that you are
able to make a good case for it in an RFC and present it to the IETF's
NFS working group).

Cheers,
Trond
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